Stem cells are key for the development and maintenance of multicellular organisms. Some animals in addition have remarkable regenerative capacities, which also rely on the activation of stem cells. In this research platform we aim to study the regulation of stem cells during development, regeneration and maintenance in a variety of animals with different life history strategies in order to unravel the mechanisms of regulation that lead to the activation of stem cells. We employ modern single cell technologies in combination with functional genomics approaches.  We also seek to develop new bioinformatic tools for the analysis of single cell transcriptome data.

20.08.2021
 

Oleg Simakov is a co-author in two papers in Molecular Ecology Resources and in Cell

17.07.2021
 

The former postdoc Zongji Wang from Qi Zhou's group published a paper on phylogeny and sex chromosome evolution of Palaeognathae (flightless ratites...

02.07.2021
 

Oleg Simakov is co-author in a new Communications Biology paper about the evolution of bobtail and bottletail squid

01.07.2021
 

Congratulations to Uli Technau for obtaining yet another FWF Grant!

29.06.2021
 

Genikhovich group has a new Nature Communications paper about the regulatory logic of the beta-catenin-dependent axial patterning

11.05.2021
 

Oleg Simakov is co-author in a new Nature Ecology and Evolution paper about the genome of Nautilus pompilius